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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2003
Filed:
Sep. 29, 2000
Hajime Erikawa, Saitama-Ken, JP;
Fuji Electric Co, Ltd., Kanagawa, JP;
Abstract
A drink cup supplying apparatus in which cup replenishing work can be conducted easily in a short time and also maintenance characteristic is improved. In the apparatus, the main body is enabled to be opened and closed in both faces by a pair of the front and back divided doors and Cup holding stands on which vertically piled cup groups are placed, are disposed in a cup holding unit in the main body in a state that they are arranged in connected plural rows and capable of moving circularly and intermittently. Cup take-out mechanisms are disposed inside the orbit X of the cup holding stands And, cup push-out-loading mechanisms which push out the cup groups placed on the cup holding stands to the cup take-out mechanisms for loading, are disposed on the reverse side of one divided door